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Wrik MEAD

Nationality: canadian

Wrik Mead is Canada’s prolific poet-priest of pervert pixilation. His films are psycho-dramatic by inclination, first person narratives of desire and accommodation. They’re a mix of painstaking pixilation, fairy-tale allegory and queer-identity and are preoccupied with the materiality and the tactility of film itself. In 1997, Toronto based PleasureDome presented a retrospective of his films and then it traveled across Canada. In 2006, the CFMDC released a DVD compilation of his work as part of the Artists’ Spotlight Series. Recently, he was included in The Sharpest Point: animation at the end of cinema (2005) and the OMSKBOOK, which was published in 2007 by the London, based artist collective OMSK.
Wrik graduated from O.C.A. in 1988 and recently returned to his studies in 2004 and received his MA at Goldsmith’s College, University of London (UK). He currently lives and works in Toronto and teaches in the Integrated Media and Photography Departments at the Ontario College of Art and Design.